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On Friday 08 August 2003 00:54, Andrew Suffield wrote:
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:28:15PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
I'm currently at the SAGE-AU annual conference, and Apple presented a
paper about their Rendezvous technology, which is their implementation of
Zeroconf[1].
My experience
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 15:56, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
In building the new Media Mate package, I've declared a Conflicts with
the moviemate package to effect moviemate's uninstall when the mediamate
package is installed. However, this leaves the question of migrating
the moviemate's
On Sunday 13 July 2003 01:31, Joey Hess wrote:
For sarge we have two options for the default MTA in base:
a. replace exim with exim4
b. no MTA installed by default, add a MTA task
So do we want there to be a MTA by default?
I would lean towards exim4 configured for local delivery only. It
On Sunday 13 July 2003 06:26, Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
I know, but that location (/var/mail/root) is discouraged, isn't it? The
admin shouldn't read his/her mail under uid 0. That's why I think that
exim should ask this question when it is configured for local delivery (or
in newbie mode ;-)
On Sunday 13 July 2003 02:24, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
I would lean towards exim4 configured for local delivery only. It is a
sane default for just about every system. The admins who know they want
another MTA can easily replace exim and the users who have no clue what a
MTA does have one
On Sunday 01 June 2003 18:24, Alexander Neumann wrote:
Hi,
While digging around in the calendar-files at infodrom.org I suddenly
realized that Debian will have it's 10th birthday at August, 16th
(according to the calendar.infodrom.debian file at
http://www.infodrom.org/projects/calendar/)
On Monday 02 June 2003 04:09, Luiz Rafael Culik Guimaraes wrote:
Dear Friends
How to start debian direct on console mode,
Regards
Luiz
Eh? I thought Debian always started in console mode unless you both installed
xdm (or the gnome/kde equivalent) and enabled it.
On Monday 02 June 2003 17:47, Adam Borowski wrote:
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
On Monday 02 June 2003 04:09, Luiz Rafael Culik Guimaraes wrote:
How to start debian direct on console mode,
Eh? I thought Debian always started in console mode unless you both
installed
Not necessarily -- some packages are a lot of work, like xfree, glibc,
apache, some are a decent amount of work, like mailman, cvs and some
are close to zero work, like chrpath and xslide. People also have
different amounts of time available -- those who are paid to do Debian
maintainence
Do we need some method of deciding what constitutes 'the' Debconf?
Or maybe we need to be more freeform. There is no inherent betterness of
say the Oslo conference over one held near Washington, DC. Maybe there are 4
of them one year and only one the next. Maybe we start holding one every
On Tuesday 29 April 2003 09:59, Michael Meskes wrote:
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-29
Followup-For: Bug #148421
Since this ITP is almost a year old and there is a package available
under http://kopete.creativa.cl/debian/sid/ and the packages applies for
NM and I am
I understand that this requires all packages using lex to
massage their lexers to conform to the new behaviour of flex; but the
gains in reduced complexity of the scanner and reentrancy and
standards compliance are well worth it.
and like the gcc 3.2 change over, the upstreams will
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On Sunday 08 December 2002 20:00, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:03:05PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
Which is why I ask for the second option -- a tarball. Let Debian,
Gentoo, BSD, whoever do their own packaging. This includes any of those
groups' users.
Debian
On Sunday 08 December 2002 13:29, Aaron Isotton wrote:
Hi,
(sorry for the overlong subject).
I originally sent this to debian-doc but I got no answers, so I
thought I'd post it here too.
I'm interested in writing the How Software Producers can distribute
their products directly in .deb
On Sunday 08 December 2002 18:12, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 06:06:41PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
In the end it makes very little sense for a3rd party to provide debs.
It makes sense for the debian user, dont u think?
Which is why I ask for the second option
On Thursday 28 November 2002 16:02, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote:
Another question: is this question proper to this list, or I should have
tried debian-user? Sorry if it is unproper... (in fact, I also sent to
that list)
debian-user is the support list while debian-devel is for the day to day
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 02:03, Roland Mas wrote:
Current candidates include:
hey how about something much less cryptic like forge. Nothing worse than
having to guess what woman's name some silly coder named the program I am
looking for.
And since most of us aren't French the names
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Great warm and fuzzy mail with an interesting P.S.
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Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 16:03:14 -0700
From: Johnny Quazar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Just completed my first crack at the new Woody
On Thursday 29 August 2002 19:45, Andrew Suffield wrote:
[Obey M-F-T or die]
Here's the basic idea: turn bug-fixing into a game (a counterbalance
to the huge quantities of time which moon-buggy and frozen-bubble have
taken away from Debian development).
People register to play, and each
On Friday 30 August 2030 06:50, Jérôme Marant wrote:
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 03:43:32PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:
I don't have a real opinion, but i do thing that looks begin to matter
for linux apps and desktops...
I agree with you. I think that the default Distribution theme really
On Friday 30 August 2002 09:03, Yenar Calentaure wrote:
Please, please, please, do not change the default without asking user
first. Debian users tend to know what they want.
And the clueful user almost never uses the default anyways. But even if they
do want to we just provide an option in
On Friday 30 August 2002 08:05, Erich Schubert wrote:
Provided we *ONLY* muck with things like colors, icons, and root images
this should be fine. Actually changing code like RH did to remove the
About box would not be good.
I never look at about boxes anyway, so why remove them? ;)
This
On Friday 30 August 2002 08:29, Mateusz Papiernik wrote:
Have a look at PGI: http://hackers.progeny.com/pgi/
It's very nice! I like GTK wizard look very much - so why
it isn't integrated with unofficial Sid images? Have You got
any other plans ? Or maybe you want to use text installer
for
On Friday 30 August 2002 08:29, Vince Mulhollon wrote:
The problem is, I experiment with and chose window managers by going to the
website and look at the pretty screenshots.
If I like the screenshot, then it's a quick apt-get install somethingwm. I
expect to get what I saw on upstream's
On Friday 30 August 2002 08:57, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le ven 30/08/2002 à 17:37, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry a écrit :
On Friday 30 August 2002 08:29, Mateusz Papiernik wrote:
Have a look at PGI: http://hackers.progeny.com/pgi/
It's very nice! I like GTK wizard look very much - so why
On Thursday 29 August 2002 05:14, Jérôme Marant wrote:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:14:12PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
Or should I simply ignore it.
You should, for the time being, until Lintian is fixed.
It seems that Lintian hasn't been updated for a long time now.
However, Sean
On Thursday 29 August 2002 05:08, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
Hi
I just wonder if this lintian error is still applicable?
Or should I simply ignore it.
I think that it is due to the /usr/doc /usr/share/doc thing but I'm
not sure.
I never saw this get pushed into policy, joeyh just decided to
On Friday 23 August 2002 11:03 am, Josselin Mouette wrote:
After the little discussion 2 weeks ago about the packaging of dock
apps, I come with a proposal.
Granularity is good. Until now, all dock apps have been packaged
separately to achieve best granularity. However, this is growing to an
On Friday 23 August 2002 01:12 pm, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
Hi Sean!
You wrote:
Asking maintainers to give up their packages so you can bundle them
just seems wrong. Why not just make your bundles be meta packages?
Because people keep complaining about ITP's of packages they consider
crap
On Friday 23 August 2002 03:05 pm, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Second, there is the famous... TADA ! Packages file size !
While this shouldn't be a limit for what we package, we can't increase
its size indefinitely. This one of the reasons why the gnome applets
were put in a single package. I
On 20-Aug-2002 Josip Rodin wrote:
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 02:14:16AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
Rather than mass filing bugs, can you write a lintian check for it
instead?
He filed a bug about Upstream Author(s), I fixed it, and then shaleh and
others reverted it :)
I think we have
On 20-Aug-2002 Josip Rodin wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:23:29AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
Rather than mass filing bugs, can you write a lintian check for it
instead?
He filed a bug about Upstream Author(s), I fixed it, and then shaleh and
others reverted it :)
I think
* Add a Conflict with the non-`c' version of the package.
why can't we have both installed, just like the libfoo6 and libfoo6g situation??
If upstream aren't inclined to change their Linux soname for the new gcc,
though, not changing our soname but doing the upgrade anyway seems the
best option.
even if some are willing not all will be. Then we have to worry about dead
upstreams too. It seems like changing the sonames to
If temporary breakage of some applications is acceptable, you can
spread this over a couple of days, by tsorting the 1000 packages.
or do a staging in experimental or somewhere else. Upload everything there,
let people look at it for a day or two then move it over.
This staging could also
I recently ran into this on my current project (blackbox window manager).
Too often as developers the people we talk to are the ones seeking help and
guidance. Whether it is a bug, ignorance, stupidity, that crazy genius only
they will ever understand, whatever we deal with them, coddle them.
[1] Unless someone actually tries to embed arbitrary pthon in it.
dput's config is not python code. It is parsed by ConfigParser which is
essentially ini style.
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So if I wanna link an programm with the gcc-3.0 version, -lfoo-gcc3 has
to be used and for gcc-2.9x, -lfoo.
Are there any better ideas?
unfortunately not, the ABI is different between the two.
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On 06-Apr-2002 Malcolm Parsons wrote:
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 11:45:08PM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote:
Currently, I edit the file in /usr/share to implement my site-wide
policies, but this will be overridden every time spamassassin is
upgraded.
Why not use dpkg-divert?
that is obviously
It'd be a very, very bad idea for anybody to start doing or saying
anything non-constructive to Lindows.com. They as a company, and every
person I've dealt with through Lindows.com, employee or otherwise, have
been nothing but corteous and helpful, and have helped make Debconf 2 a
On 12-Jan-2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There seem to be quite a few gui tookits:
Xlib, GTK+, Tcl/Tk, and Motif just to
name a few. I downloaded GTK+, but it
hasn't had a new stable version since
before 2000.
stable means stable. Why does there need to be a new release if the last one
On 26-Sep-2001 Steve Greenland wrote:
On 25-Sep-01, 17:56 (CDT), Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a) you declare a relation on a package more than once i.e. Depends:
foo, foo ( 2.0). Note this check assumes that '|' relations are
sane, so Depends: foo | bar | baz, foo is ok
On 26-Sep-2001 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
Lintian gives errors when looking at a package with letters at the
beginning of the upstream version number. Ch. 4 of policy indicates
that the upstream version can't begin with a letter. However, it
doesn't really indicate what should be done in case
On 25-Sep-2001 Steve M. Robbins wrote:
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:10:22PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:07:36PM +0200, Jochen Voss wrote:
there used to be a package called dput,
but now I cannot find it anymore. For example
visiting
On 25-Sep-2001 Taral wrote:
All the task-* packages seem to be missing from the main Packages file!
Where did they go?
P.S. If this was announced, perhaps the announcement should have gone to
the debian-devel-announce list?
Task packages are deprecated, tasksel now handles them. This
No, dput doesn't depend on ssh, it only suggest it like rsync. But it
depends on GnuPG now, therefor the change.
why the depends on gpg?
Seeing how I made DWN I thought I should send an update.
1.20.15 was admitted in this morning and everyone should get it in today's
upgrade. It closes around 20 bugs. 1.20.16 was just uploaded due to two bugs
submitted by Eduard Bloch. Lintian now has two more errors:
a) you declare a
On 21-Sep-2001 Adam Heath wrote:
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
http://people.debian.org/~shaleh/lintian.
It's normally customary to include a brief list of things we should be
testing.
It. The package. The thing I uploaded. Run lintian on your packages. Do you
get
On 21-Sep-2001 Domenico Andreoli wrote:
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:17:47PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
http://people.debian.org/~shaleh/lintian.
there is some problem with debian/Debian spell checking, it reports
spelling-error-in-copyright debian Debian even if it is (IMHO) ok
http://people.debian.org/~shaleh/lintian.
It works... Something's wrong with your system.
Try strace'ing ls.
what shell are you playing with? I presume most people are using bash.
On 19-Sep-2001 Ola Lundqvist wrote:
Hi
I have a simple question. Is it possible to run dpkg -r foo
from within a postinst-script when using dselect or apt?
What is the result?
It whould be very helpful when creating the improved harden
packages. :)
You just got nominated as the
On 14-Sep-2001 Francis ANDRE wrote:
Hi DDG
I check out the www.gnu.org inetutils against debian inetutils and I found
them out of sync??
Could anybody tell me why??
GNU inetutils is a FSF implementation, ours is the original BSD.
The FSF is re-implementing long existing code so that
What's the problem? German is spoken outside Germany. That what's
spoken outside Germany is not the same as that what's spoken inside
Germany, but that what's spoken outside is still called German
(officially), as far as I know. That is to say, de_AT.ISO-8859-1 is as
german as
The lintian maintainer is back! I am slowly reading up on the new policy and
my bug list. So, if you have any beefs or patches please read the BTS and
submit accordingly.
On 12-Sep-2001 Edward Betts wrote:
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The lintian maintainer is back! I am slowly reading up on the new policy
and
my bug list. So, if you have any beefs or patches please read the BTS and
submit accordingly.
I presume you are looking
On 02-May-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
11 years ago IETF described a IP protocol to transport IP datagrams using
pigeons. See
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
Sadly enough, noone has still implemented this protocol. It would be nice to
make a debian-package of it. Anyone interested
Actually, I think it has been implemented recently. I think maybe a
Debian package would have to go into contrib though, unless you can find a
way to squeeze pigeons into a .deb ;-)
Hmm..Depends: pigeons (= 200lb)
Why? We do not have 'Depends: CAT5 ( 30m)'.
On 02-May-2001 Marcin Owsiany wrote:
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:50:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
11 years ago IETF described a IP protocol to transport IP datagrams using
pigeons.
African or European?
pidgeon, not swallow (-:
The autoconf folks try very hard to write portable code. They go to
ridiculous lengths to support every major flavour of OS, compiler,
make, and shell. Indeed, Zack's tests show that only the recent ash
behaves differently.
more importantly (to me anyways) is the question of why do we
On 01-May-2001 Simon Richter wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently debconfizing one of my packages, uptimed. Two quoestions
have arised:
- At the start of my config script, I import all settings from the real
configuration file, if it exists. For some settings, this is trivial,
for some, I
I still don't understand why the policy (version 3.5.3.0)
doesn't simply say must rather then may.
Debian is a community which exists for the mutual benefit of its members.
Members playing games like 'policy does not say I *HAVE* to do it' do not make
Debian a better place.
let's all
On 25-Apr-2001 Arthur Korn wrote:
Hi
I got an offer from the friendly people at Core-SDI to make
auditd (server part of theyer BSD licenced, in development, log
management software) a full (read: better) replacement for
logrotate.
Will a package in non-US/main have any chance to be
On 25-Apr-2001 Arthur Korn wrote:
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry schrieb:
as long as lograte can be installed first, then I can later
install auditd and everything will just work, sure.
I can't use logrotate with msyslog, it won't work, logrotate is
just too limited. This would mean I have to move
What it does use for crypto is openssl's libcrypt,
wich is NOT needed when used as a simple (traditional)
rotate system. So Debian can ship audit[d], and if
a user wants it's advanced crypto support, she/he should
install openssl package.
does it dlopen this? in other words, if I have a
On 23-Apr-2001 John Goerzen wrote:
OK, I'm rather annoyed. Recently I'm doing squash bugs on my packages
and I have had already THREE that have been broken by NMUs that
occured over the past week.
So perhaps we need to come up with some more structure for the bug parties.
Perhaps the
On 22-Dec-2000 Bastian Kleineidam wrote:
Hi,
if you test my linkchecker .deb package:
I just noticed that lintian gives the following warnings on my 1.2.12
package of LinkChecker:
W: linkchecker: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link
W: linkchecker: prerm-does-not-remove-usr-doc-link
a
There are a total of 645 packages that have not been converted[2]. There
are 16 weeks between December 31st and Aj's projected freeze date for woody.
If 40 people could do one package a week, we would be done. Or 20 people
doing two a week, or just 6 people doing one a day. In other words,
I'd be glad to help. How should we proceed? Should we send patches to
the appropiate maintainers or directly upload the NMUs? Honestly, they
had enough time to tranist to /usr/share/doc.
send patch, wait some period of time (maybe a week?) then warn of NMU, then NMU.
On 13-Sep-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Sorry to bring up this subject again.
I just wanted to know that can't mp3 encoders be distributed from a non-us
site where the policies are much more relaxed ?
the patents are held in Germany. This restricts us because most countries in
It isn't supported upstream anymore. Homepage is gone,
mail to author bounces. Gmp3 isn't very nice and a little
bit buggy for me. I don't have the knowledge and time to
work at the source and don't feel like trying, either.
I say ditch it. No sense filling up Debian with dead code.
1) Ignore Python 1.6 and up, as long as the license is not compatible
with the GPL. That's probably the easiest way to go, but is it
justified ? Looks like a deliberate discrimination against a
DFSG-free license, only because it's not GPL compatible.
2) Include both Python 1.5.2
On 03-Sep-2000 Peter Makholm wrote:
Christian T. Steigies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What does it do?
It has the same functionality as the date (1) program, only... It
has it in grammatically correct latin.
Couldn't this be done with gettext and the normal date comand?
On 01-Sep-2000 Colin Watson wrote:
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I started this afternoon submitting bugs against packages which print
verbose output in their maintainer scripts. The future that Debian
must take is to fully support debconf. To further this goal I will
continue
But then it might interrupt the installation process. Just as debconf
asks all of the preinst questions before any of the packages have
started unpacking, it would be nice to be able to defer any questions
that *have* to wait for the postinst until the very end, when all of
the packages
So, is there any plan to use them (like recompiling the package on the user's
machine)?
you always have the option of using 'apt-get source' to recompile a package,
then place it on hold and we wont touch it.
Beyond that, it gets very messy. Not to mention the disk usage.
Users who
I started this afternoon submitting bugs against packages which print verbose
output in their maintainer scripts. The future that Debian must take is to
fully support debconf. To further this goal I will continue submitting patches
to any package which prompts the user in a maintainer script.
You cannot use it as a default shell without auditing all scripts.
I have used ash for over a year now as my /bin/sh.
On 30-Aug-2000 Brian May wrote:
Ok,
Can somebody explain the following?
From URL:http://www.debian.org/Bugs/, click on
Index of maintainers of packages with bug reports., and then
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] takes you to:
Please let me know what I need to do or who I need to contact. I should
be on debian-devel but feel free to CC me.
we would like to know what license your software is under. We only place Open
Source licensed code into Debian proper. See our web site for details (you
will often hear this
This is what experimental is for, no?
Unstable is for unstable Debian, not necessarily unstable software. The
experimental distribution is much more appropriate for unstable upstream
software.
agreed with the addition that experimental must also be apt'able. Getting
software from the
I don't think bugs like this should slow down our release cycle at all. IMO
this bug should be downgraded to normal.
Comments anyone?
sounds fair, and little items (sorry) like metamail should not hold us up.
On 05-Oct-99 Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote:
Hi All,
As you all probably know, ALS is from Oct. 12 - 16 at Atlanta. I am having
trouble running any kernel above 2.2.5 on my machine. If anyone is coming and
would want to help me with this problem, I would appreciate it. I can bring
my
On 05-Oct-99 Johnie Ingram wrote:
... and would be willing to help at the Debian booth (#503, community
pavillion, check it out), or who knows good places to stay at in
Atlanta? Or who wants to planepool with the Novare team from Dallas?
Joey Hess and myself are going. We have one
On 01-Oct-99 Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On 30 Sep 1999, James Troup wrote:
OpenBSD have started working on the last free SSH (1.2.12 was under a
DFSG free license AFAICT[1]), they also, (again AFAICT [I'm going by
the CVS commits]), are ripping out the patented algrothims (IDEA,
etc.).
On 01-Oct-99 Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On 1 Oct 1999, James Troup wrote:
[ RSA is no longer included. ]
Wait wait, doesn't this mean that ssh RSA authentication is gone as well??
Did they replace it with DSS/DH or what? IMHO ssh would cease to be very
usefull as a security tool without a
On 29-Sep-99 Rene Mayrhofer wrote:
portsentry is a daemon that listens for port scans (also stealth scans)
and is able to disconnect and remember the attacking hosts in real-time.
It uses ipchains for disconnecting and tcp wrappers for preventing hosts
from further connections.
Please look
e) Let update-inetd handle this. This might not be enough for standalone
servers like apache and roxen but it would work with a pop3 server -
update-inetd -add should notice that there is already a valid entry enable
with that service and add the new entry with a hash mark.
Not enough.
On 27-Sep-99 Clint Adams wrote:
a) I would not test a new daemon on a working machine, I would use a
separate
So?
b) if you know what you are doing, compile the packages by hand, fix their
install scripts, and remove the conflicts. You are trying to circumvent the
norm.
If I wanted
Ok, let's bring this back to implementation. How would you propose we handle
this? Currently daemons install, set themselves up, and begin running.
a) we can prompt.
b) we leave everything off and let the admin turn it on (not an option for
obvious reasons)
c) first come first serve -- first
So what you're telling me is that anyone with a complex setup
shouldn't bother using Debian?
a) I would not test a new daemon on a working machine, I would use a separate
one. In the case of gnu pop3, it will spin off and consume 99% of your cpu due
to poor child management. We (I am one
The bigger issue is that until debconf has a real db, passing the answers an
admin would want into packages is rather painful.
Yes, this will allow for great power -- in the future. The Debian install
procedure is undergoing lots of change.
On 17-Sep-99 Christian Surchi wrote:
Does a package of these libs exists?
I was supposed to be taking them over. However I am stretched a wee thin at
the moment. So, if you or someone else would like to help, feel free.
The one requirement being that wxPython also needs to be cleaned up at
Or the script could simply test and run like the init.d scripts do.
On 09-May-99 Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
What if a package is installed, and puts a script in a run-parts
directory or into a .d directory, but isn't configured due to a
missing dependancy? The newbie sysadmin doesn't know to
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